Today's open platforms for network measurement and distributed system research, which we collectively refer to as testbeds in this article, provide opportunities for controll...
Reputation mechanisms help peers in a peer-to-peer (P2P) system avoid unreliable or malicious peers. In application-level networks, however, short peer life-times mean reputations...
Gayatri Swamynathan, Ben Y. Zhao, Kevin C. Almerot...
As it lacks central management in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) e-commerce environments, prior to new transactions with an unknown peer, the trust evaluation is critical, which relies on the ...
Yan Wang 0002, Duncan S. Wong, Kwei-Jay Lin, Vijay...
In this paper, we present a solution that incorporates BitTorrent mechanism into P2P streaming. In our solution, several modifications have been incorporated into BitTorrent to sup...
Because of the constant reduction of available public network addresses and the necessity to secure networks, devices like Network Address Translators and firewalls have become qui...
Luigi Ciminiera, Guido Marchetto, Fulvio Risso, Li...